The Power of Staying Calm Under Pressure.

Whenever you are in a position where you do not know what to do again, it is best to relax and take a deep breath because most of the things we know comes to our remember when we are calm and not nervous. When you are on a hot sit doing something which requires you to think, it best reward you can give yourself is to remain in your quality of self because that moment and time will trust you and test your patience. I am a good testimony of this, and also I have experienced this most time.

Imagine going for an exam which you have fully prepared yourself for and getting to your exam center, something came up, and then you see some of your friends going into the exam hall to sit for their examination, and now you became subjected to stress due to something you didn't do right. This is the time to be calm because this moment will get you frustrated and even make all what you have studied leave your brain. I had an encounter with this last week.

Last week was a time for me to write some continuous assessment test to support my marks because the final year stress is nothing to reckon with. Normally we had 3 venues for the test, but I did not go there with my ID card, but instead I went with my brain. Getting to the exam venue, I was told that we won't be allowed to write anything if we do not have our ID card, but I was not with mine. This got me worried. But at some point, I knew I was not alone.

I was getting worried but trying to be calm because I knew help will come. After about some minutes we had to get the course form to write the exam, but the painful aspect was that this was not fine at the other venues, but this was a test for us. After we came back, we wrote our test eve. If the test was not a normal time, but I still managed because I was calm.

This was a painful thing, but I never let that bring me down because I know that I just need to be confident for that time and face whatever it is that is giving me issues. This is a motivation for us all today, and I hope we learn from it.